Eindhoven won’t instantly spring to thoughts as a high-tech hub, however the Netherlands metropolis is eager to place itself as a middle for deep tech in Europe.
The Technical University of Eindhoven, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and regionally primarily based corporates like ASML and Philips have been eyeing initiatives throughout Europe and making use of what they’ve discovered to the area’s technique. Philips launched in Eindhoven in 1891 and performed no small half within the municipality’s ambitions to develop into a tech hub.
Eindhoven produces a excessive variety of patents per 12 months contemplating its small inhabitants and has been house to an inordinate variety of {hardware} startups. The native High Tech Campus has a excessive {hardware} focus, for example.
Our survey respondents think about the town sturdy in areas like photonics, robotics, medical gadgets, supplies science, deep tech, automotive tech, sustainability tech, medtech, Big Data, {hardware} and precision engineering. They are on the lookout for extra mature startups and scaleups targeted on AI and onerous tech.
Eindhoven is taken into account weaker in fintech and client merchandise, and it exists in a small area with restricted world visibility.
Over the subsequent 5 years, one respondent stated, “Eindhoven will have evolved to the Netherlands’ second-largest tech ecosystem, behind Amsterdam. On a European scale, Eindhoven will have entered the top 10.”
To study extra about Eindhoven, we queried the next traders:
- Robert AL, Systema Circularis
- Nathan van den Dool, CEO, Space4Good
- Pepijn Herman, enterprise builder, Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maat schappij
- Betsy Lindsey, CFO, Aircision
- Andy Lurling, founding companion, LUMO Labs
- Han Dirkx, CEO and co-founder, AlphaBeats
- Jonas Onland, managing companion, Serendipity
- Daan A.J. Kersten, CEO, PhotonFirst
- Daniel den Boer, CEO and co-founder, Vaulut
Robert AL, Systema Circularis
What business sectors is your tech ecosystem sturdy in? What are you most excited by? What is it weak in?
High-tech programs, photonics, robotics, medical gadgets.
Which are essentially the most fascinating startups in your metropolis?
Lightyear, Bio-TRIP, EFFECT photonics, Nemo Healthcare, Sorama.
What are the tech traders like? What is the funding scene like in your metropolis? What’s their focus?
Fully devoted.
Who are the important thing startup folks in your metropolis (e.g., traders, founders, legal professionals, designers, and so on.)?
Steef Blok, Harm de Vries, Piet van der Wielen, Andy Lurling, Mark Cox.
Where do you see your metropolis’s tech scene in 5 years’ time?
More mature, extra targeted on inclusive improvement, much less high quality coming from college spinoffs.
Nathan van den Dool, CEO, Space4Good
What business sectors is your tech ecosystem sturdy in? What are you most excited by? What is it weak in?
High-tech programs and supplies, the true high-tech and deep tech stuff that both results in scientific breakthroughs or turns scientific breakthroughs into firms. Lithography makes a serious contribution to that, in addition to medical gadgets and manufacturing applied sciences.
Which are essentially the most fascinating startups in your metropolis?
Nearfield Instruments, Optiflux, Dynaxion, AlphaBeats, Incooling.
What are the tech traders like? What is the funding scene like in your metropolis? What’s their focus?
They focus primarily on high-tech machine constructing and software program improvement, AI.
With the shift to distant working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, will folks keep in your metropolis, transfer out or will others transfer in?
Largely unaffected.
Where do you see your metropolis’s tech scene in 5 years’ time?
More built-in between AI and onerous tech and manufacturing.
Pepijn Herman, enterprise builder, Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maat schappij
What business sectors is your tech ecosystem sturdy in? What are you most excited by? What is it weak in?
The execs are high-tech programs, collaboration tradition and wonderful startup ecosystem; The cons are that it’s a small area with restricted visibility globally.
Which are essentially the most fascinating startups in your metropolis?
LionVolt, DENS, Lightyear,…
